Weather-cap for swinging sashes.



F. A. DiLLlNGHAM.

WEATHER CAP FOR SWINGING SASHES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 14. m7.

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FREDERICK A. DELIlfiG-HAM, F TROY, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE TROY CARRIAGE SUNSHADE COMPANY, OF TROY, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

WEATHER-CAP F012. SWIN GING' SA$HES.

1,24%,285, Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Now, 2?, 191 '3'" Application filed May 14, 1917. Serial No. 168,503.

To all whom it may concern: for attaching such closure or overlapping Be it known that I, FREDERICK A. DIL-. Weather strip whereby they will not be read LINGHAM, a citizen of the United States, reily' disengaged or displaced by violent considing at Troy, in the county of Miami and tact of the opposing sash member. State of Ohio, have invented certain new and With the above primary and other inciuseful Improvements in feather-Caps for dental objects in view as will more fully ap- Swinging Sashes, of which the following 'is pear in the specification, the invention cona specification. sists of the features of construction, the My invention relates to automobile wind parts and combinations thereof, and the 10 shields and more particularly to a form of mode of operation or their equivalents, as water cap or sash frame heading so conherein after described and set forth in the structed and arranged as to overlap the opclaims. posing sash member to form a Weatherstrip Referring to the drawings Figure 1 is a or sealing strip to exclude air and moisture. perspective view of adjacent portions of two 15 The object of the invention is to improve opposing wind shield sections or other the structure as well as the means and mode sashes to which. the overlapping cap of the of operation of such devices whereby they sash frame, forming the subject matter herewill not only be cheapened in construction of has been applied. Fig. 2 is a perspective but will be more eiiicient in use, positive in view of a portion of the sash member carry- 20 operation, secure in their adjustments, and ing the protective cap forming the subject unlikely to get out of repair. matter hereof, viewed from the inside. Fig. It has been customary heretofore to pro- 3 is an inverted perspective view of the ca vide a weather strip or heading of rubber removed from the sash. Fig. 4 is a bottom I or other flexible material which is fitted to plan view thereof. Fig. 5 is a transverse 25 the edge of the glass of one sash section in sectional View thereof. such relation as to overlap the edge of the Like parts are indicated by similar charglass of theother section when the sashes actors of reference throughout the several are alined. As now commonly employed views. this weather strip extends only upon the Referring to the drawings, 1 represents 30 glass of the wind shield from one inner side one of the sash members, while 2 indicates of the sash frame to the other. It is custhe opposing member, such members being ternary to provide the exposed ends of the in their closed position, or in a common sash frame with a metallic water cap shaped plane. Mounted upon the edge of the glass to conform to the sash frame and overhangof one sash member, preferably the lower ing the edge of the glass a limited distance member of the pair, is a weather strip 3, of at points in proximity to the frame. Inasrubber or other similar material having a much. as the weather strip or sealing strip vertically disposed flange i which overlaps now commonly employed extends only from the glass of the second or opposing sash one water cap or head cap to the othcr,there member. Secured to the exposed end of the 40 is left a short space at each end of the glass opposing or upper sash frame member 5 is supported weather strip which is unproa water cap or head cap 6, of metal, which tected and through which the air may freely at the inner side of the sash frame 5 is concireulate. This unprotected space comtracted as at 7 to conform to the thickness prises a crevice intermediate the water or of the sash glass which it overhangs a short head caps of the opposing sash members. distance. At the present time it is cus- To provide means for effectively closing toniary to provide the lower sash 1 with a or sealing this terminal space at each end similar water cap or head cap, placed and of the weather or sealing strip now comarranged similar to the cap 6, secured to and monly employed, and intermediate the wainclosing the exposed end of the lower sash 5o ter or head caps which inclose the ends of frame member 8 and abutting at its inner the sash frames is one of the primary obend against the end of the glass supported jects of the present invention. weather or sealing strip 3. Inasmuch as A further object of the invention is not clearance space is necessary intermediate the only to provide means for efiectivel y closing water or head caps of the respective sash 555 this opening, butto provide improvedmeans members, in order to permit the relative continuous and complete protection for the wind shield or sash joint from one extreme of the sash frame to the other, there is provided a water or head cap 9 supported upon and inclosing the upper end of the .lower sash frame member 8 of a shape and proportion quite similar to the opppsing water or head cap 6 except that the cap 1) is provided with marginal fingers or tines it). This cap 9, and likewise'the cap 6 is secured to the sash fram by means of a screw .11, extending through the table of the cap and engaging a screw threaded hole in a block or insert 11, positioned lvithin the interior of the sash frame member if the latter is formed of sheet metal, as shown in Fig. 5 or in sash frame member itself in the event that the latter is solid.

The head or cap 9 iscontracted at its inner end as at 12 in a manner corresponding to the contraction 7 of the cap 6.

Mounted upon the head or water cap 9 and inclosing the same is a protective covering or supplemental cap 11 preferably of rubber or some similar material but which may, if so desired be of rigid or non-yielding material. The covering or protective cap let is shaped to conform to the general contour of the primary cap or head 9 which it incloses and is contracted at its inner end to agree in cross sectional shape with that of the glass supported weather strip 3. The protective covering or supplemental cap 14 is provided adjacent to its outer edge with an upturned integral flange or lip 15 shaped to conform to the contour of the cap 6 of the opposing sash section. The flange l5 terminates at the inner end of the cap 1-1 in a position flush with the flange or lip 4c of the glass supported weather strip 3. The flange or lip 15 of the cover or supplemental cap 14: forms a continuation of the flange -l of the glass supported weather strip and over-laps the cap 6 of the upper or opposing sash section thereby closing the intervening clearance space or crevice.

If means was not provided for securing the protective covering or cap 14 in position upon the primary cap 9 the violent impingement of the opposing sash 6 upon the flange 15 would tend to unseat or disengage the protective covering or auxiliary cap 14 from the primary cap 9. To obviate such possibility and insure the retention of the auxiliary covering or supplemental cap 14 in its adjusted position, the side portions of the cap 14 are extended downward beyond the limit of the side walls of the primary cap 9, and at their lower edges are flanged or shouldered inward as indicated at 16. Such llangc or shoulder engages over the edge of the side wall of the primary cap serving to clench the parts in engagement one with the other. To further secure the parts in engagement, the fingers or tines 10 formed integral with the primary cap or head 9 are bent outward and upward over the sides of the protective covering or auxiliary cap 1d thereby preventing the accidental disengagement of the flanged or shouldered edges 16 of said supplemental cap from the edge of the side walls of the primary cap 9.

It will be obvious that if a rigid flange or lip is desired or is suitable to the conditions of use such rigid lip or flange may be formed integral with the primary cap 9' and the auxiliary covering supplemental cap 1 1 of flexible material may be omitted. In

. such event the rigid flange or lip would form a permanent stop for the opposing sash section. In either form of embodiment the lip or flange carried by the cap or head is preferably positioned to form a continuation of the flange member 4 formed upon the glass supported weather strip 3 to effectively close the clearance space between the opposing sash frame members and provides a continuous protection from one extreme side of the sash or wind shield frame to the other.

if so desired theauxiliary head 14 and the glass supported weather strip 3 may be formed integral one with the other. In

such case of course a cap 14: will be formed at each end of the weather strip 3. Inasmuch as wind shields are not always constructed of the same width, it will be found more cconomical however to form the sup.- plcnlental or protective cap 14 independent .of the weather strip 3 against which the inner end of the cap is firmly abutted.

From the above description it will be apparent that there is thus provided a device of the character described, possessing the particular features of advantage before enumerated as desirable but which obviously is susceptible of modification in its form, proportion, detail construction or arrangement of parts, without departing from the principle involved or sacrificing any advantages.

While in order to comply with the statute, the invention has been described inlanguage more or less specific as to certain structural of itsfeatures, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to any specific details, but that the means and construction herein described comprise but one mode of putting the invention into effect, and the invention is therefore claimed broadly in any of its possible forms or modifications within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:-

1. The combination with two relatively movable sash members, of a cap fitted upon the end of the frame member of one sash and a projecting flange upon said cap adapted to overlap the frame member of the opposing sash.

2. The combination with two relatively movable sash members and a Weather strip yielding material fitted upon said base or primary cap, and. a projecting flange or weather lap upon said supplemental cap.

4. The combination with a swinging sash, of a frame cap secured thereto, a flanged inelosnre for said cap, and projecting tines upon said cap clasping said flanged inclosure.

5. The combination with a swinging sash, of a frame cap secured thereto. a flanged inclosure for said cap, and underhanging flanged edges upon said inclosure engaged beneath the edges of the cap.

6. The combination with two relatively movable sashes, and a weather strip carried by one of said sashes and overlapping the other sash intermediate the side frame members thereof, of flanged frame'eaps carried by one of the sashes registering with the overlapping weather strip and overlapping the side frame members of the opposing sash. y

7. The combination with two relatively movable sashes, and a weather strip carried by one of said sashes and overlapping the other sash intermediate the side frame members thereof, a base cap of rigid material carried by the sash frame, a supplemental cap of yielding material engaged with the base cap, and a flange projecting from the snplplemental cap overlapping the opposing sas 1.

8. The combination with two relatively movable sashes, and a weather strip carried by one of said sashes and overlapping the other sash intermediate the side frame members thereof, a base cap of rigid material carried by the sash frame, a supplemental cap of yielding material engaged with the base cap, fingers or tines projecting outwardly and upwardly from the base cap and inclosing the supplemental cap, and a flange carried by the supplemental cap overlapping the opposing sash.

9. The combination with two relatively movable sashes, and a weather strip carried by one of said sashes and overlapping the other sash intermediate the side frame members thereof, a base cap of rigid material carried by the sash frame, a supplemental cap of yielding material engaged with the base cap, interlocking shoulders upon the base and supplemental caps, and a flange carried by the supplemental cap overlapping the opposing sash.

10. The combination with two relatively movable sashes, and a weather strip carried by 'one of said sashes and overlapping the other sash intermediate the side frame members thereof, and a laterally distorted continuation of said weather strip at each end of the. portion intermediate the side frame members adapted to overlap the side frame members of the opposing sash.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of May, A. D. 1917.

FREDERICK A. DILLINGHAM.

W i t nesses:

J. H. Bnmon, H. B. Canvnn. 

